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RH: Ridge Estes Leans On Family, Track During Health Issues

Related Topics: Nathan Leeper, Brad Estes

By Paul Suellentrop

Brad and Mishaun Estes watched their son change from an energetic, instinctive linebacker to a child plagued with seizures, overweight and burdened with a feeling that his body didn't work.

"At the height of the worst part of it, the kid would not leave the house," Brad Estes said. "The kind of misery he was in, I can't even imagine."

On Saturday, Ridge Estes competes in the shot put for Wichita State in the American Athletic Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships in Birmingham, Ala. It is the latest step in a remarkable path through two significant injuries to prominence in the throws.